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2 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1844.


Slavery.

conditioned for Majesty in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned against the removal of such
non-removal of
slave.
previous slave from the Colony of Hongkong by his said former owner, without the
said previous slave having been produced before the Chief Magistrate, or any other
Justice of the Peace of the said Colony of Hongkong, and examined apart as to his
voluntarily departing with his said former owner, and being informed that by his so
doing be will revert to his former state of slavery.
Slave to be sup 6. And be it enacted in case any such previous slave shall at any time leave his
ported and ap
prenticed in case former owner, or in case such former owner shall be unable or unwilling to enter into
of his not re
maining with such bond as aforesaid , that such previous slave shall be maintained at the public cost ,
former owner, or
of former owner
not entering into until such time as he is enabled to gain his own livelihood ; and the Chief Magistrate
bond.
aforesaid is hereby authorized, with the approbation of the Governor in Council, to
apprentice or otherwise place out such previous slave as aforesaid, with a view to his
obtaining a livelihood by his own labour.

Slave found in 7. And be it enacted, if any such previous slave as last aforesaid shall be
service of former
owner proof of thereafter found in the possession or employment of his former owner, that such
due hiring to lay
upon former
owner. possession or employment shall be deemed primâ facie proof of such owner having
unduly repossessed himself of the said previous slave ; and such owner in default of
rebutting such presumption shall be liable to the penalties herein affixed to the
treating or using any one as a slave in Hongkong.
Liabilities incur 8. And be it enacted , that any person knowingly receiving in his house any one
red by any person
not giving infor having any person previously a slave in his possession, or a person used or intended
mation of owner
of slaves inha
biting his house. to be used or claimed as such, and not giving immediate information thereof to the
Chief Magistrate of Hongkong or the nearest Justice of the Peace, shall upon
conviction thereof before the Chief Magistrate, or such Court at Hongkong as herein
aforesaid, be liable to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding three months, with
or without hard labour and corporal punishment, and shall forfeit such sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence, and also such sum not exceeding fifty
dollars to be paid to the person giving information of the same, as shall be adjudged
in manner aforesaid.

Penalties to be 9. And be it enacted that the punishments and penalties herein provided shall
cumulatory .
be held and deemed to be in addition to those inflicted by the law of England for any
offence mentioned herein, and not in any way in the stead, lieu , or substitution thereof.
Provided always and it is hereby enacted that no part of any sum forfeited, and declared
by the laws of England to be payable to any informer, shall be paid to such informer.
without the express direction of the Chief Magistrate or Court aforesaid, who shall
have full power to make such deductions therefrom as may be deemed expedient.
Rule for inter 10. And be it enacted that whenever this or any other ordinance, in describing
peting this and
other ordinances. or referring to any offence, or the subject matter on, or with respect to which it shall
be committed, or the offender or the party affected or intended to be affected by
the offence, hath used or shall use words importing the singular number or the
masculine gender only, yet the ordinance shall be understood to include several